Dosimetric comparison of left-sided whole breast irradiation with 3DCRT, forward-planned IMRT, inverse-planned IMRT, helical tomotherapy, and topotherapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 241-246

  Schubert, Leah K ^a   Gondi, Vinai ^b   Sengbusch, Evan ^b   Westerly, David C ^c   Soisson, Emilie T ^d   Paliwal, Bhudatt R ^b   MacKie, Thomas Rockwell ^b,e   Mehta, Minesh P ^b   Patel, Rakesh R ^b,f   Tomé, Wolfgang A ^b   Cannon, George M ^b  

^a NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^e TOMOTHERAPY INC   (United States)

^f Western Radiation Oncology   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; IMRT; Tangents; Tomotherapy; Topotherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; FORWARD PLANNED INTENSITY MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; HEART; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INVERSE PLANNED INTENSITY MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; LUNG; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; THREE DIMENSIONAL CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY; TOMOTHERAPY; TOPOTHERAPY;

BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 80052274295     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2011.01.004     Document Type: Article

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